Airport Passenger Counting [closed]

New York's airports count passenger departures and arrivals. Each departure and arrival is further classified as international or domestic. If a CDG to JFK passenger clears immigration, I would expect the international-arrival counter to increment.

If said passenger immediately continues to make a connecting flight to JAX, Question: Is there any reason why the domestic-departure counter would not be incremented?

Update: Passenger counting methods are critical to airport planning, which ensures that service & resource capacity is matched to demand (indicated by counting). The discussion (Q&A) and dissemination of travel metrics serve to improve travel. The passenger is only one stakeholder in the travel process: if you want your systems to work for you then maybe questions from travel providers should be considered.

Any questions or comments, that serve to clarify the question, are appreciated.

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Best Answer

Where the report counts “passengers” it means passenger movements. Every time a passenger arrives or departs by air constitutes a passenger movement. A transit passenger makes two movements, one when arriving and one when departing. In your example you would be noted as one arriving international passenger and one departing domestic passenger.

Edit:

I think it is evident from data in the report that numbers are calculated as above. Let us look at commercial passenger traffic data for JFK from 2017.

The reported number of passengers is domestic inbound + domestic outbound + international inbound + international outbound. 13,534,099 + 13,426,982 + 16,400,104 + 16,031,315 = 59,392,500. The number of passengers is clearly just the sum of arriving passengers plus departing passengers. [page 43]

When comparing JFK with other airports in the world, the same total is used, 59,392,500 passengers, putting JFK at 22nd place, well behind Dubai at 3rd, which is known for being completely dominated by transfer passengers. Transfer passengers must be included in this number, which in turn is arrivals plus departures. [page 28]

Also when listing airlines by passenger numbers, which would hardly exclude transfer passengers, the grand total is the same. [page 41]

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Are passenger flights running?

Scheduled international passenger flights have remained suspended since March 23, 2020 in the wake of the pandemic and they will now restart from Sunday.

What is counter closing time?

For domestic flights, counter closing time is 60 minutes before departure. Counters for flights (both Domestic and International) operating from International Terminal close 60 minutes before departure of flight.

How do airports count passengers?

Airports count passengers (or cargo) either as arriving or as departing. A passenger (or cargo shipment) that makes a connection (changing to a flight with a different flight number) is counted twice: both as arriving and departing. Airlines also count this way.

Do passengers board at the airline counter?

Passengers start their boarding procedure by going to a reserved area and show their PNR codes or boarding passes to the counter clerks a certain amount of time before boarding. Counter check-in lasts longer than online check-in and for passengers with hand luggage only it can be a waste of time.

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